I am not in the mood to do stats for the year yet (maybe early next week), so instead I share with you the 2010 edition of “My Life According to Literature.”

This year, I feel quite satisfied in my role as stay-at-home mom. I love my home, I love my little boy (I think the 5 hours a week of preschool do us both good), and I love my husband (who is my best friend) and I think the new year will just keep getting better! It seems this satisfaction with my place in life reflects in the books I selected below. I had to cheat a little bit, as April is not a time of day and solitude is not the weather, but hey, there you go.

I’ve only included books I’ve read in 2010. I also limited myself to classics (for this, books written at least 30 years ago) and adult books. The last time I did this, I included children’s titles, which just isn’t as fun.  Each title links to reviews on Rebecca Reads. Click over if you wanted to know the author or read the review.

My life right now, according to literature

Using only books you have read this year (2010), cleverly answer these questions. No repeating a book title. It’s harder than you think!

Describe yourself:  The Home-maker
How do you feel? Great Expectations
Describe where you currently live:  Paradise Regained
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Beyond the Blossoming Fields
Your favorite form of transportation:  Three Men in a Boat
Your best friend is:  Kindred
You and your friends are:  Wives and Daughters
What’s the weather like? One Hundred Years of Solitude
Favorite time of day:  The Enchanted April
If your life was:  The Masterpiece
What is life to you? The Joys of Motherhood
Your fear:   Little Boy Lost
What is the best advice you have to give? Silence
Thought for the Day:  Can You Forgive Her?
How I would like to die:  Strong Poison
My soul’s present condition:  Sense and Sensibility